A question about a recipe: One Pot Kale and Quinoa Pilaf; How Do I Cut The Kale?
I have a question about the ingredient "lacinato kale, washed and chopped into 1" lengths" on the recipe "One Pot Kale and Quinoa Pilaf" from deensiebat.
How do I cut the Kale? It says 1" length... does that mean I should make 1" slices (strips) OR Keep the natural width and have wide but 1" in length pieces?
I'm sorry I know this is probably a stupid question.
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~ Sam1148: LOL AWESOME! Never would have thought of that!
Thanks everyone for such a great experience! I've been on other sites and posted questions and never received any responce, this was such a help!!!!
At a time when appliances where introduced to the market and people made them 'multi taskers'.
Why buy a salad spinner when the laundry machine can spin and dry, and be used as a big container filled with water to clean sand off of harvest of greens to feed a crowd. Come to think of it, I don't think salad spinners existed in the 50's. I love this kind of food archeology.
BTW: I still do this for collard greens when I get a big bunch of them and the sink is full.
It was something my mother and her mother used to clean a big harvest of greens. You don't use the machine to run through a cycle, but just to fill with water and swirl around by hand. Then spin dry. Well, that's how they did it.
Apparently, it's not uncommon.
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=006Xmf
As an aside: For collards, kale, mustard green...any green that's needs to be really clean. A big bunch and be a pain to clean to get all the sand and grit off.
Fill the washing machine in the laundry room with cold water. And clean it there. Don't let it agitate, but do let it spin dry.
(okay, you're worried about left over detergent in the basket right? shouldn't be a problem if you use good unscented detergents--but you can run a short cycle empty with some white vinegar to clean the basket if you're worried).